Who makes a home? When does a house become a home? And when does one truly mentally ‘move on’ from the home she grew up in, to build her own home? Vani Viswanathan ponders, but has no answers!
A mother, a singer, navigates the world of music with her young daughter. Vani Viswanathan tells you how the mother deals with the surprises life throws at her.
Why is it important to demand the right of women to “loiter” in public? What does it mean in a country where women need to fight bitter battles for a range of (basic) freedoms? In an interview with Vani Viswanathan, Neha Singh, who founded the Why Loiter? movement in Mumbai, discusses women’s right to public spaces for leisure and pleasure too.
A mother and her teenaged daughter reflect on how the Indian society views educated urban women today, based on print and TV ads that they have recently seen. Vani Viswanathan tracks their conversation.
Vani Viswanathan eavesdrops on the conversation of six middle-aged women and imagines what the various facets of their married lives are like. But life, as it were, throws in a few surprises, and Vani finds her imagination challenged.
Vani Viswanathan talks about how, after working with Spark contributors on their submissions, the editors plough through their own contributions for the month, often attempting to surmount the infamous “writer’s block”!
Prone to going on nostalgia trips often, Vani Viswanathan wonders how much of nostalgia is healthy.
Sadako, suffering from leukaemia due to exposure to radiation from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, makes a wish. Vani Viswanathan tells you how.
Vani Viswanathan writes a story where the unlikeliest of people sympathise with one another – after all the world is divided into haves and have-nots of unimaginable variety.